The Theatre: King Lear (New)
... King Lear (New) FOR the opening of the Old Vic's new season, Mr. Laurence Olivier had been set two problems of daunting complexity. He was to produce a tragedy which some have thought essentially too big for the stage, and himself play Lear, a part beyond the powers of many famous tragic actors. But the feeling that Mr. Olivier is now one of the makers of theatrical history has become general ...